Bridge odds for practical players pdf

That being said, I do think that even if the reader doesn't grasp all the information in this book, it can be a good learning exercise just to see the basic card distributions and what are the percentages on how often they break.

Using this information and some common sense, the reader can see h This book is not for the casual Bridge player. Using this information and some common sense, the reader can see how to play the cards for the highest percentages for success.

If someone is more mathematically inclined, there are deeper understandings available and supported with good examples. Frank rated it really liked it Nov 23, Bog rated it really liked it Feb 27, Liam Milne rated it really liked it Sep 08, Arjune Bose rated it liked it Aug 20, Douwe rated it it was amazing Jan 25, Holls rated it liked it Oct 04, Robert Walker rated it really liked it May 12, Matt Smith rated it liked it Nov 30, Karen Walker rated it it was amazing Jan 19, John rated it really liked it Jan 12, Daniel Andreas rated it it was amazing Aug 17, Tiit Hendrik Piibeleht rated it really liked it Aug 26, Gronk rated it it was amazing Nov 13, Gary L rated it liked it Nov 26, Ashiesh Bhatia rated it really liked it Nov 04, Cathy Chua rated it really liked it Dec 15, Dan Chocron rated it liked it Apr 27, Nausicaa marked it as to-read Jan 07, Klaus marked it as to-read May 11, Bridgeclub marked it as to-read Mar 26, Soumyadip Chakraborty marked it as to-read Jul 22, Mark Donovan added it Jul 28, Jeremy Lewis marked it as to-read Oct 07, Ramesh Abhiraman added it Jul 16, Dace is currently reading it Feb 18, Andrea Salvatori marked it as to-read Jun 30, Adrian Scottow marked it as to-read Apr 24, Mukesh Ghatiya marked it as to-read Oct 04, Robert Sadowski marked it as to-read Jan 25, John added it Jul 25, Rammohan marked it as to-read Jun 14, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. About Hugh Walter Kelsey. Hugh Walter Kelsey. Hugh Walter Kelsey — was a Scottish bridge player and writer, best known for advanced books on the play of the cards. However, he was most famous and will be remembered as a writer. He wrote some fifty books on the game, mostly aimed at intermediate to advanced players. It is a measure of their quality that many of them were still in print more than a decade after his death.

Two of his Hugh Walter Kelsey — was a Scottish bridge player and writer, best known for advanced books on the play of the cards. Two of his books, Killing Defence at Bridge and Advanced Play at Bridge, were listed by the Official Encyclopedia of Bridge as "mandatory requirements for a modern technical bridge library". It introduced and developed many new concepts such as backwash squeeze and entry-shifting squeeze.

Bridge experts surveyed by the American Contract Bridge League ACBL in ranked it third on a list of their favourite books, nearly thirty years after its first publication. Kelsey was bridge columnist for the Edinburgh newspaper The Scotsman, wrote many articles for bridge magazines, and was general editor for the Gollancz Master Bridge series.

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Category : General. Synopsis: Learn to harness the odds to solve problems that constantly recur.